¹⁷ Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

⁴ You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.

²² For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:

⁵⁸ For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

²⁶ And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

¹⁴ For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

¹⁰ For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

¹¹ And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

⁸ This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;

¹³ And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,

¹ Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

² So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.